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V. ROYLE. MAGHINE FOR PUNGHING AND STAGKING JAGQUARD CARDS.

No. 585,876. Patented July 6, 1897.

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PATENT OFFIQE.

VERNON BOYLE, OF PATERSON, NEWV JERSEY.

MACHINE FOR PUNCHI NG AND .STACKING JACQUARD-CARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,876, dated July 6,1897. Application filed September 26, 1895. Serial No. 563,591. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VERNON BOYLE, of Paterson, in the county of Passaicand State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement inMachines for Punching and Stacking Jacquard-Cards, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement inmachinesforpunchingandstackingjacquardcards in which provision is madefor automatically feeding the cards from a supplystack to the punchesand thence arranging them in a stack ready for convenient removal.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the machine in sideelevation. Fig. 2 is a top plan View. Fig. 3 is a View in rearelevation, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged View in detail.

The supporting-frame of the machine consists of a head A and a backboneA, projecting at an angle to the head, the whole being supported uponthree legs, two of them, a a, located at or near the extremities of thehead A and the third, a located at or near the extreme end of thebackbone. This particular form of frame is light and at the same timeaffords a rigid stable support for the movable parts of the machine. Thehead A is surmounted by a table B, from which uprises a pair of endguides O O for holding the supplystack of blank cards to be fed to thepunches.

The punching mechanism is located immediately to the rear of thestack-guides O O and is denoted as a whole by D. As my present inventiondoes not relate to the punching mechanism in detail, it will suffice forthe purpose of understanding my present invention to say that the cardsas they are fed rearwardly from the supply-stack are received upon apunch-bed cl and that the punches are forced through them by means ofconnecting-rods d, connected with the punch-carryin g head 01 andactuated by eccentrics ol d 011 the shaft E, driven by the maindrive-shaft F through the intermeshing gear f and e.

The means for accomplishing the feed is particularly shown and describedin'my pending application, Serial N 0. 563,590, filed September 25,1895, and as it specifically forms no part of my present'invention Iwill simply state that it is effected by a flat plate g, (see Fig. 3,)fixed to a pair of rack-bars g 9 terposed between the bearing h and theend of the sleeve H and the other, k being interposed between thebearing 72 and the oppo site end of the sleeve H and provided with anextended neck 71 which extends through the bearing it into position toengage the nut h, scre7wed onto the projecting end of the spindle t.

By tightening on the nut h the washers 7L3 and 71 are forced into closerfrictional contact with the opposite end of the sleeve 11, so as to atall times prevent the pitching forward of the sleeve H under themomentum of its throw. This is an important feature, inasmuch as theslightest pitch beyond the predetermined point will tend to advance thecard slightly beyond the position where it should rest to be punched,and the holes in it are thereby made more or less out of adjustment, afeature which becomes objectionable when the cards are employed fordetermining the pattern.

For purposes of lifting the supply-stack of cards whenever from anycause an imperfect card becomes curled, split, or broken during theoperation of feed I have provided the end standards 0 O with verticalslides 0, one on the inner face of each, the said slides being providedat their lower ends with offsets 0, adapted to take under the ends ofthe lowermost card and lift it, together with those above it, upwardlyfrom the table. The slides c are provided with operatinghandles 0 whichextend through elongated slots 0 in the standards C O and bracketoutwardly from the outer faces of the standards. Retaininghooks c arepivoted to the outer faces of the standard 0 with their operating endsin position to hook under the handles 0 when the lifting-slides areelevated and retaining the supply-stack in the desired elevation whilethe defective card is being removed. As soon as the trouble is remediedthe supply-stack may be again lowered by simply tripping the stack ofcards in an ed gewise upright position tary adjustment relative theretoin order to on its edge and supported against a travelretaining-hooks oOffsets c at the lower ends of the slides c are adapted to rest normallywithin recesses 0 formed in the table, so as to form 110 obstacle to thefree passage of the cards along the surface of the table. As the punchedcard is pushed forward by the next succeeding card from the bottom of kthe supply-stack it is received upon a skeleton rest I, consisting ofarms fixed to and radiating from a rock-shaft i, mounted in lugs 70,projecting rearwardly from a pair of brackets K a K, fixed in verticaladjustment by any wellv known or approved means at the rear of thehead-frame A. The shaft'i is rocked by means 3 of a crank-arm '6,connected bya rod 1? with the arm Z of a vibrating lever pivoted at L tothe bracket K, the opposite arm Z of said lever being in engagement witha cam M, secured to rotate with the gear-wheel e. The cam M is providedwith an elongated slot m, through which the clamping-bolt m extends forlooking the cam to the wheel 6 in the desired rov rock the shaft 2 andhence the rest I, at the proper moment during the rotation of the wheel6. The vibrating lever pivoted at L is operated in a direction to returnthe rest I by means of a spring 1*, connected at one end with the arm Zand at its opposite end with the supporting-frame.

After the punched card has fallen upon the rest I the shaft '5 isoperated and the card is thrown over into an upright position, restinging stop N, mounted to slide along a groove 0 in the upper face of asupport 0, mounted on the supporting-frame A. It is intended that thestop N shall be sufficiently weighted or otherwise retarded by friction,so as to afford the necessary resistance to hold the against it, and yetso that it will yield step by step the distance of the thickness of acard under the pressure of each succeeding card which is forced by therest I against it or the cards which have already been pressed againstit.

As the cards approach their edgewise upright position to form the stackP their ends are caused to slip past a pair of spring-actuatedretaining-hooks g, which swing outwardly as the card is pressed betweenthem, and immediately the card has reached its upright position swingforwardly toward one another under the tension of light actuatingspringsq. Stops g are employed to limit the throw of the retaining-hooks q.

The operation as a whole may be briefly described as follows: The cardsare fed one by one from the supply-stack beneath the punches and afterhaving been punched are fed forward by the action of the next succeeding card, so that when one card is pushed forward from the bottom of thesupply-stack in position to be punched it at the same time pushes apunched card onto the rest I. While the card is being punched the rest Iis operated and the punched card thereon is forced rearwardly againstthe end of the stack P between the retaining-hooks q and is there held,while the rest I is returned to receive the next succeeding card fromthe punches.

It is obvious that the stack P may be continued to any desired length bysimply extending the support 0.

What I claim is 1. The combination with the punching mechanism and meansfor moving the card in a horizontal plane away from the punchingmechanism, of a rocking rest for receiving the card and carrying it intoan edgewise upright position, a stop for holding the card in onedirection in its upright position and yielding retaining-hooks forholding the card in the opposite direction in its upright positionduring the return rocking movement of the rest, substantially as setforth.

2. The combination with the punching mechanism and standards or guidesfor retaining a supply-stack of cards in position to be fed to thepunching mechanism, of liftingslides engaged with the guides orstandards of the supply-stack for elevating the supplystack of cards atpleasure, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with the punching mechanism and standards or guidesfor retaininga supply-stack of cards in position to be fed to thepunching mechanism, of liftingslides engaged with the guides orstandards of the supply-stack for elevating the supplystack of cards atpleasure and retaining devices for holding the stack of cards elevated,

substantially as set forth. I

4. The combination with a rocking sleeve for actuating the feedmechanism, of a washer in position to engage the end of the rockingsleeve and means for regulating the pressure of the washer against theend of the sleeve to retard it, substantially as set forth.

VERNON BOYLE. Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, GEORGE BARRY, Jr.

